We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.